Tourism and Erotic Imaginaries in Wartime Paris: French and Germans during the Occupation, 1940-1944 by Bertram M. Gordon

“…This essay focuses on the intersections of tourism, war, and erotics in occupied Paris during the Second World War. Too frequently, tourism is considered a only peacetime phenomenon. …”
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Des guerres et des dictatures à travers les vignettes by Silvina Campo

“…The article proposes an analysis of comic strips that revolve around the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, having as authors those who had to confront those conflicts in childhood.…”
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Working in partnership with parents: the triangular connection by Maayan Burstein

“…Modern residential care in Israel can trace its history back to the end of the Second World War. At that time, orphaned Jewish children were sent to Palestine for refuge, and as part of the building of a Jewish society in the future. …”

La mémoire de la Grande Guerre à travers les odonymes en France by Clément Millon

“…But the number of odonyms who commemorates the second world war, or other conflicts, is more important. …”
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Legionáři před Mimořádným lidovým soudem v Chrudimi 1945–1948 by Jarosalv Nečas

“…The main section of the study is focused on their lives during the Second World War and their post-war trials before the Extraordinary People`s Court in Chrudim. …”
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A rediscovered fragment of a human mandible from Predmostí u Prerova (Czech Republic): Predmostí 21 by Eva Drozdová

“…It is a Gravettian fossil thought to have been destroyed during the Second World War. The authenticity of the fossil and its description are discussed and it is also compared with other fossils of the Moravian Upper Palaeolithic.…”
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Quadriptyque narratif autour de la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Joëlle Ginestet

“…Four works of fiction about the Second World War published by the Institut d’Etudes Occitanes between 1951 and 1978 fostered the renewal of the narrative form in Occitan fictionalized writings. …”
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Imigração no Brasil e na Alemanha: contextos, conceitos, convergências by Sérgio Costa

“…The article compares discourses and policies directed to immigrants in Brazil during the "nationalization campaign" at the time of the Second World War with efforts to "integrate" immigrants in contemporary Germany. …”
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Racial Fault-lines in “Baseball’s Great Experiment:” Black Perceptions, White Reactions by Henry D. Fetter

“…By so doing, the paper will illuminate the fault-lines that characterized race relations within both the sport of baseball and the larger society as each was confronted with new challenges to long established policies and practices in the years after the Second World War.…”
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Italy and the history of preventive conservation by Simon Lambert

“…After a brief look at the history of preventive conservation from Antiquity to the Second World War, two seldom-discussed Italian initiatives are presented: The Franceschini Commission (1964) and the Pilot plan for the programmed conservation of cultural heritage in Umbria (1976).…”
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Primordiality of Salvatore Scarpitta by Antonella Chiazza

“…The article analyzes the artistic research by Salvatore Scarpitta, one of the major protagonists of the international art scene after the Second World War, in its different phases: expressionist, abstract-figurative and informal. …”
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Lucio Fontana and the Architecture by Antonella Chiazza

“…This article explores the Spatialism in architectural terms, which is at the base of Lucio Fontana’s work after the Second World War. A fundamental and lesser-known aspect of the artist’s work, developed since 1949, is the creation of ‘Ambienti Spaziali’, really and truly architectural spaces that test the perception and often even the sense of balance of visitors. …”
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A Long Shadow of World War II: Development of the National Security Concept in the United States by V. A. Veselov

“…The paper examines how lessons of the Second World War led to a rethinking of this concept, and how approaches to national security evolved during the war and immediately after it. …”
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Skrifbeskouing en oorredingsretoriek: perspektiewe op performatiewe prediking by Johan Cilliers

“…The critique that has been levelled against this understanding of Scripture and preaching, initiated through the mind-set of the Enlightenment (Kant), gaining momentum since the Second World War, and coming to full fruition in the so-called postmodernism, is briefly addressed. …”
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Joseph Loxton Rawbon, the "Master Restorer" by Cyndie Lack

“…A colourful character with bombastic flair, his numerous enterprises, however limited in their success, exemplify the boundless optimism of the Industrial Age and open a small window onto the history of Toronto's early cultural development through to the Second World War.  Remarkably, Rawbon believed that, like his artist's stretchers and other inventions, the restoration of paintings held a key to the making of a fortune.…”
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V Americe za války „před válkou“. Působení plk. gšt. Oldřicha Španiela v USA v letech 1939–1941 by Tomáš Jiránek

“… During the Second World War, the Czechoslovak exile authorities were building military units which should have supported the efforts of the anti-fascist coalition. …”
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Memory Politics on Screen: The Aesthetics of Historical Trauma in Izaokas (Isaac) (2019) by Gabrielė Norkūnaitė

“…Nonetheless, by generating an immersive experience and engaging viewers at the level of affect, the film effectively engages in polemics with public narratives of the Second World War. …”
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An Analysis of the Impact of the Syrian Crisis on Turkey’s Politic-Military, Social and Economic Security by Sertif DEMİR, Muzaffer Ercan YILMAZ

“…It concludes that the Syrian Crisis represents Turkey’s most challenging security problem since the end of the Second World War as it has had many profound impacts on the country.…”
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Résistance(s) et identités plurielles dans la poésie occitane de la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Cecile Noilhan

“…Focusing on Laurence Campa’s works about the Great War poets, this study of works written by four occitan poets, -Charles Camproux, Max Allier, Félix Castan and Robert Lafont-, during the Second World War, puts forward a typology of occitan poets whose political determination, through writing, turns out to be dual: a denunciation of the living conditions during the war and a promotion of their own language, the occitan language.…”
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Ce qui aurait pu être et ne fut pas. Une perspective cinématographique de la psychiatrie catalane en exil by Cristina Bernaldo

“…He stayed in Saint Alban for most of the Second World War, overcoming the “soft extermination” period, on which French psychiatry has only conducted limited investigations, with no loss of lives. …”
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